Surfie
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A surfer (one who rides a surfboard), especially one involved in the surfing subculture. Australia
"Surfies present to the dominant culture their leisure myth in magnified form. Bikies appear to challenge the values of the dominant culture, something which they are able to do because they, in the first place, like the surfies, accept them. The surfie subculture in its full form was confined to those areas of the world where there is surf."
Example
More examples"Surfies present to the dominant culture their leisure myth in magnified form. Bikies appear to challenge the values of the dominant culture, something which they are able to do because they, in the first place, like the surfies, accept them. The surfie subculture in its full form was confined to those areas of the world where there is surf."
Etymology
From surf + -ie (“diminutive suffix”); compare bikie.
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